conversations on live art | borders | crossings

September 14, 2018September 11, 2018

Guest post: Lisa Alexander | Provocation for TO YOU TO YOU TO YOU: Love Letters to A (Post)Europe

Since then borders inside and outside have grown backwards in time. A clock that’s stopped can fool us for it shows the correct time twice a day. New languages have been created for these borders based on malappropriating old words. Our enemies were once the distant cousins we gave shelter to after a long journey. Is it possible to decolonise memory that halts the ability to dream? Fifty years on from 1968 and Liberty just published A Guide to the Hostile Environment. The world’s seas are privatised by businessmen and kleptocrats. Walls are being built again. Privilege is superficially fixed for the few. Austerity is a lie as debts can never be paid off but what if debt becomes a journey, a search for ways of being with each other? the soul’s dark summits are non-negotiable.

Love is political, love is a philosophy. With love there’s room for warmth and dissonance and freedom of movement. To see the horizon or be a grain of sand on the shoreline. To be singular and multiple, sing songs of unfixing or reparation, cast spells of decolonization and seduction.

This event asks artists to gather and to respond with the action, idea or form of a love letter. Of now. It may also be ending it. An action approaching another, a double listening.

Lisa Alexander

Artists will respond to this provocation as part of TO YOU TO YOU TO YOU: Love Letters to A (Post)Europe programme:

4 Oct | TO YOU TO YOU TO YOUBook Launch hosted by Live Art Development Agency with an evening of discussion and open letters. Book your seat here.